Ok, I updated again and am trying just the ST-8XE.

I can only indoor test, however I think it's still valid. I'm using the telescope simulator as well.

I did the guide capture, "calibrate", then told it to autoguide.
Then I went to the CCD panel and told it to take a 30+ sec exposure.

I didn't get a guiding suspended message, but it doesn't seem to be doing much. Also the CCD panel never returned from capturing the image.

I re-ran the test with debugging on. It did the same as before, and stopping the main CCD exposure did not get the guiding going again.

Debug log attached of my second run.

No log attached. At any rate, there was an issue with signals/slots in Qt which caused the CCD capture progress to halt if a guide frame was captured. I'm not sure if this resolves your issue, please update to latest kstars-bleeding from GIT, or tomorrow if you're using the PPA.

D'oh - I didn't check it uploaded ok.

Anyway, I build from git/svn, so I will retry soon.

It's improved, but not there yet.

I had an issue getting the guiding going - it just hung at one point, with an error in the main panel of the sbug ccd for the guide exposure. It was set to 0, so I set it to 1 and the guiding started again.

Once started, I tried taking an image with the primary. This time it started, but the guiding seemed to stop - which was confirmed when the primary finished and a guiding suspended message appeared.

log file:

Thanks for the log. Ekos suspends guiding because you cannot read the guide head while the main CCD is downloading an image, it should resume guiding when the primary image is downloaded. I've made a few changes. Please update both indi-sbig and KStars and let me know if it works for you now. Also, if you play to use the ST-I, it should only report "SBIG CCD Guide" and no "SBIG CCD Guide Guider"!!!

I'll test the ST-i later.

I've just done another indoor test with the ST-8XE - and it appears to be working. Got the "guiding" going and then took a long exposure with the main chip. It did the suspending of the guiding when downloading the image, but then resumed as expected.

Assuming the weather is ok tonight, I hope to get a "real world' test done.

I reviewed the debug log and noticed the following:

I think some reads failed as it was trying to get the temperature instead? Can priority be given to getting the guiding image over getting the temperature?

I can confirm this! I made some tests with our SBIG ST2000-XM last night, sometimes I get "readoutCCD - StartReadout error!" too with the new driver version (no problem one or two weeks ago). But combination of main CCD and guiding chip seems to work now

Christian

Christian - have you tried the Polar Alignment routine using the Sbig camera? Did you have any problems with it?

Not yet, but I will test it soon.

Ok, just updated the driver, no more readout errors (tested with SBIG ST-8XE).